This work investigates the process of position-taking, focussing on the factional bargaining
within the party. Exploiting two recently built datasets that estimated the policy positions of …

Sanctions and homogeneity of intra-party preferences are the two main pathways to party
unity in roll-call votes. However, only a few works have managed to properly measure the …

The rise of personal parties is one of the most relevant and innovative political phenomena
to emerge from the Italian Second Republic. During the 1990s, Forza Italia presented a new …

MPs elected in 2013 Italian parliamentary elections have been selected through three main
procedures: open primaries, closed primaries and exclusive methods, meaning that they …

Previous research has proved that a high level of consensus in the law-making process can
be found in the European parliamentary democracies. This consensual pattern of behaviour …

Party switching has been defined as an «umbrella label for any recorded change in party
affiliation on the part of a politician holding […] elective office»(Heller and Mershon 2009 …

The political and institutional changes that have impacted Italy over the last 20 years have
provided important stimuli for research focusing on the Italian legislative process. The …

Provare a governare, cercando di sopravvivere : esecutivi e attività legislativa nella
seconda repubblica / Francesco Marangoni Page 1 SCIENZA POLITICA 7 Francesco …

The large literature on legislative party unity identifies the confidence relationship, ie the
threat of being voted out of office and losing agenda setting powers, as well as cabinet …

The Parliaments elected after 1992–usually labelled as Parliaments of the Second Republic–
have witnessed a continuous alternation of expectations, twists and stops whose …